Z'GuG Zeitschrift für Gemeinwirtschaft und Gemeinwohl

Sociocratic and democratic organizations stand as real utopias, entrusting extensive decision-making and design competencies to all employees. Drawing from the findings of a qualitative explorative study involving 13 expert and employee interviews,...

The financial burden of insured persons in the GKV is of significant importance given the increasing public finance deficits and rise in contribution charges. This study makes use of a microsimulation model to determine the total burden of insured...

Sustainability, regionality and common good are in line with the zeitgeist. For the Braucommune Freistadt, however, they are not just “marketing buzzwords”; due to its unique legal construction, this brewery has lived these values since its...

Where do effective impulses for social transformation come from? Today the first thought probably does not fall on religion. However, the diffusion of organic food proves that Anthroposophy is an important mind-set driving changes. In addition...

This article explains how the theoretical and empirical content of business management propositional systems can be improved in the light of morphological and typological cognitive possibilities. This is especially true when it comes to taking...

The article investigates the utopian content of past futures of work. In a first step, he develops a systematics of economic utopias. Then he reconstructs the ideas of an end of work of Oscar Wilde, Paul Lafargue and Bertrand Russell and places them...

The global environmental problems had been unmistakable since the end of the 1960s. In 1975, Ernest Callenbach published Ecotopia, the first major ecological utopia, which confronted the cri⁠sis scenarios with a decidedly positive alternative....

This article is dedicated to the question whether and to what extent transdisciplinary ‘real world laboratories’ (RWL) can be ‘real utopias' in two respects, since they address socio-political problems in a co-creative research mode and aim to...

The discussion about an unconditional basic income (UBI) in Germany raises fundamental questions. Arguments for and against have been made more precise and yet the elementary prerequisites for living together that affect the relationship between UBI...

The article examines demographic differences in the perception of performance characteristics of waste disposal services. A household survey was carried out inspired by the European Customer Satisfaction Index (ECSI). Factorial as well as regression...

This article aims to raise awareness among stakeholders from politics, (public) business and academia of the opportunities (and challenges) of start-up promotion by public enterprises. In addition, the paper provides guidance for the successful...

Providing public services within the framework of municipal services of general interest is undergoing a far-reaching transformation. Triggered by digitalisation and its accompanying social change, new ways need to be found to provide a contemporary...

The public sector is full of paradoxes. Nevertheless, there have been few studies dealing with specific leadership behavior under paradoxical conditions. This paper examines the concept of paradoxical leadership based on a survey in public...

Digitalization partnerships in the sense of SDG 17 between administrations and state-owned enterprises are central to successfully shape digital transformation and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the discussion on partnerships,...

The paper investigates the reporting practice of German and Austrian municipal water utilities regarding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the relevance of SDG reporting for state-owned enterprises has increased, very few studies exist...